Author Profile: Pat Cook
His first one-act was produced at Lon Morris Junior College and has since vanished in some forgotten trash can. After moving to Houston in 1970, he soon found other writing assignments at AstroWorld, educational radio, night clubs and local television.
His first play, Rest In Peace, was published in 1976. Still, writing was only a sideline along with several other odd jobs, which included playing piano in pizza parlors, acting in local commercials, industrial films and on stage, building scenery and selling pianos and organs.
More plays got published along the way, Pat's wife, Rose Ann, taught him the joys of using a computer. This, coupled with his conviction to drop everything else and write full time, proved to be a turning point in his life.
As of this writing, Pat Cook now has over one hundred and thirty plays published by seven publishers in the United States and England. He has also had some of his works translated into German and Dutch.
For more information, visit PatCook.org.
Titles by Pat Cook:
Backstage
The Best Haunted House Ever
Bulldog Saves the Day
Campaign Capers at Taft High
Christmas Choir
The Christmas Gazebo
CSI: Christmas Scene Investigators
Cyrano Loves Roxanne
Down in Front
Fear Factory
The Ghost of Christmas Presents
Hankerin’ Hillbillies
Headed South from the Great White North
Hillbilly Hankerin’
Ho Ho Ho! The Santa Claus Chronicles
Ho Ho Ho! The North Pole Chronicles
An Inconvenient Corpse
Last One to Survive is a Rotten Egg
The More the Scarier
Mother Goose Has Flown the Coop
The One and Only Santa Claus
Pirates and Petticoats
The Principal’s Apprentice
Run for the Money!
The Saga of the Golden Horseshoe
Stop Sending in the Clowns
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
Switching Principals
The Trouble with Being Tucker Dowt
’Twas the Night Before the Night Before Christmas
Two Heads Are Better Than One
We the People
We the People — The Musical
We’ll be Right Back After This Murder...
Who’s Dying to Be a Millionaire?